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Director of Photography
tel: 845-358-8687 cell: 914-325-2825 roger@turnstoneprod.com
Nyack, New York, 10960 USA
AWARDS
1997 Earthwatch Film Award and Honorable mention by the American Film and Video Association,
1993, for co-directing and shooting on “the Quiet Revolution”.
Voted Best Cinematography in the 1988 FOCUS awards for “Where or When”, which also won Best Film
in this short film festival in Los Angeles.
2003 Cine Golden Eagle for “9/11 Response and Recovery” produced by Signet Productions, Inc.
2003 Emmy nominee “Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans”, produced by
Seth Kramer and Daniel Miller, Great Projects Film Company.
Selected Documentaries
2006
PBS: America at a Crossroads
“Security Vs Liberty”: Patriot Act
TLC/ YouthAids /Tiger Tigress
“Confronting the Pandemic”: Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek
visit Central America to promote AIDS prevention and healthcare. New Jersey Network
“Ethics Roundtable” big multi camera setup
National Geographic Channel
“Megastructures: New York Bridges” HD
Dina Guttman
“Transhumanism”: immortality
New Jersey Network /Ed Gray
“Stem Cell Research”
New Jersey Network /Ed Gray
“Education”
Film for Thought / Suzanne Bauman
“DC Artists Project”
PBS /Great Projects/ Ironbound
“America Rebuilds: Pt 2" Ground Zero NYC
National Geographic Channel
“Everyday Things” HDCAM F900 camera
Indy / Turnstone Productions
“Haverstraw, NY” changes in Hudson village
Before 2006
EquinoxFilms for PBS
“The Writing Code” shoots in Iran and Egypt.
Anatomical Travelogue Inc
“John Perry Barlow’s Health Challenge”
Grateful Dead songwriter gets a full body health makeover.
Anatomical Travelogue Inc
“Heart” and “Blood” medical documentaries
Transition Productions
“The Descent” feature HD Doc- Additional camera
Discovery / Anatomical Trav
“Anatomy of Sex”
Immy Humes / Doc Tank
“Planting Trees” 26 foot Jib to film tree planting on an estate.
Sony Music
Alessandro Safina with Phil Ramone.
Discovery Times / Ed Gray
“Someone’s Watching” surveillance
Discovery/Leibovitz Hellman Prods
“Highwire” Chinese slackwire artist
Alliance for Justice
Susan Sarandon opening sequence
PBS / Great Projects
“America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero”, including
introduction by Kevin Spacey
PBS / Great Projects
“Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans”
Idealist Films/Lisa Hepner
“Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines” NY shoots only
Signal Hill Entertainment
“West Point: 200 Years of Honor and Tradition”
Food Network / Tiger Aspect
“Mario’s Restaurant Rookies”: Mario Batali
PBS / Great Projects
“Media Matters” 2002, 2003
Stone Lantern Films, PBS
“School” 16mm film. History of public education
Videotours Productions
“Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures” wildlife 1992-1996
Bruce Norfleet
“POW’s”: “B” camera on 24P HD documentary.
National Geo Special, Jamie Hellman “Inside the FBI” 2002.
National Geographic:
“Wade Davis”: Immy Humes, Director, 2001.
PBS “NOW with Bill Moyers”:
Classic Albums- Isis Films (UK)
“Lou Reed: Transformer”
PBS American Experience
“Letters From War”: Robbie Kenner, Producer/Director 16mm
PBS, Great Projects Films
“Great Projects: The Building of America”, 16mm.
Turnstone Productions/StoneLantern “Megamall” I am co producer with Vera Aronow, Sarah Mondale
PBS / Great Projects
“Crucible of Empire”: Cuba and Philippines. 16mm.
PBS, Ben Shapiro
Ruben Blades: Opening for “Buena Vista Social Club”
Bill Moyers/PBS
“Trade Secrets: Chemical Industry” B camera on 2 cam int.
Nature / PBS “Orangutans” shot in the National Zoo in DC
American Mus of Nat History
Geology videos for permanent exhibitionsBetaSP and HDCam ABC News: Millennium series
“The Century” many interviews and B roll for man episodes
PBS / Ben Shapiro
“Latest Word” hosted by Ray Suarez
Turner Original Programming
“Wild City” Isabella Rosellini, Central Park Animals
Discovery Channel
“Deep Sea, Deep Secrets”: submarine Alvin
PBS / Suzanne Bauman
“Jackie: Behind the Myth” Jackie Onassis
Turner Original Programming
“The Hidden Zoo” National Zoo Vets
MTV / Lucky Duck Productions
“No Money, Mo’ Problems” producer- Lisa Jackson
Dan Jenkins/ Atlas Media
“Tea Dance” ballroom dancing
PBS / Tatge Lasseur Productions
“The Tenth Van Cliburn Int’l Piano Competition”: B camera
Discovery / Great Projects
“He Conquered Space: Wernher Von Braun”
HBO / Simon and Goodman Prods
“Heart” B camera, heart transplant for child
National Geographic "Explorer"
“Secret Subs”; the Making of “Hawaii” NGS Special
“Jungle Spaceport”; “Way of the Wodaabe”, “Civil War Games”, worked on many other episodes
“The Quiet Revolution”
Bangladesh, Honduras, India 16mm, co director, award winner
Monticello / FM Productions
“Jefferson the Statesman”: Visitors Center film; 16mm
PBS / Great Performances
“Songs of Six Families”: BB King, Linda Ronstadt, 16mm
“You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story”: 1990, 16mm.
Paul Winter
"Song for the World": music video filmed in Russia; 16mm
Marketing and Advertising
Johnny Depp, Director
“Banter” 35mm Panavision anti drug short film 1994
Ironbound Films
“Acumen Fund” B&W 16mmfilm 2006
Deloitte and Touche
two commercials for consulting firm, Scott Morris Prods 2006.
Turnstone Productions
“GDC Home Guide” DVD for homeowners Co-Director/DP
Five Browns
music video for sibling pianists B-camera Astra Zeneca / CCG Metamedia
Seroquel: 2 commercials 24P SDX 900. 2006
Pfizer / CCG Metamedia
Xalatan: 3 commercials for Glaucoma drug. 2006
Pfizer / CCG Metamedia
Exubera: commercial for inhaled insulin. 30P SDX900. 2006
CCG Metamedia
Geodon: doctor informational video 2006
Conde Nast / Virtual Beauty
24P HD directed by Jane Nisselson; 2002.
insurance company videos 1990 to 2006.
Celine Dion and Anne Geddes
2 camera shoot to promote new CD and book. 2005 Verdasys / Scott Morris
commercial for corporate security software 2005-06 Astra Zeneca / CCG Metamedia
videos for presentation at a sales and marketing conference 2005 Pfizer / CCG Metamedia
numerous videos for marketing, training, and promotion Pfizer / CCG Metamedia
Xalatan- commercial and marketing videos - glaucoma drug
Red Hawk Productions / Merck
ethics training video for pharmaceutical company 2005.
Cohn Creative Group
World Security Challenge: amusing dramatizations 2006
Smith Barney
Many Promotional and informational videos 1995-2007 Mastercard:
Marketing and informational videos for Mastercard 2000- 2006.
Smith Barney
“More than Good Fortune” philanthropy video 2006
Smith Barney
Financial Consultants commercial, B&W 2005
Smith Barney
Financial Consultants short drama about ethics 2000
TV Commercials
Director of Photography:
Wine Spectator 2006 Dan Sladkus, Dir
Museum of Natural History 2000 Geralyn Abinader, dir
Buick: 1990, 35mm Lear Levin, Dir
Hershey Park 1993, 1994 16mm Allan Albert, Dir
True Gold 2003, 16mm Steve Gruskin, Dir
Avacor 2001-04, 16mm Steve Gruskin dir
Oxegen 2005 HD Steve Gruskin dir
Centerpiece Gourmet 2005 Steve Gruskin dir
Massachusetts Governor’s race; Mandy Grunwald, director 16mm.
Camera operator:
Lear Levin, Director Cameraman: GM, Chrysler, US Army, Champion Paper, others 35mm
Miller Beer: Michael Werk,dir 35mm Dristan: Kevin Jones, Dir 35mm
CBS Sports: Brian Williams, Director, super16 film
Selected Companies I have worked with:
Director of Photography
tel: 845-358-8687 cell: 914-325-2825 roger@turnstoneprod.com
Nyack, New York, 10960 USA
“My Mother’s Early Lovers”- DP Nora Jacobson, Director Super 16
“The Descent”
Transition Productions feature HD Doc- Addl camera
“NY Cop”- camera operator
“Rock and Roll Vampire”
“Elsa’s Plums”
“Where or When”
won grand prize in the FOCUS Awards competition, 1988, voted best cinematography by judges panel
consisting of Allen Daviau, James Glennon and John Bailey “The Perverts”
“Spree”
“The Bank Job”
starring Eszter Balint from “Stranger Than Paradise” “ICE”
Kahane Corn -currently John Stewart's producer Celebrities and Notable people interviewedCeline Dion Michael Douglas

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